Netlify Pricing in India 2026: Plans and Credits in INR

Netlify pricing is no longer a list of limits. Since September 2025, every new account gets a monthly pool of credits, and everything you use - deploys, bandwidth, requests, function time - is paid for out of that pool.

This guide is for Indian developers and small teams who want to know what a Netlify plan really costs in rupees. It covers each plan, what a credit buys, what happens when credits run out, and the GST and card charges that sit on top of the dollar price. Then it works three monthly bills through to the amount on your card statement.

All Netlify figures are from Netlify’s own pricing page and credit-based billing documentation, checked on 14 November 2026. Netlify changed its credit rates in April 2026, so re-check before you budget.

Netlify pricing plans in 2026, in dollars and rupees

Rupee amounts use Rs 94.20 to the dollar, the RBI reference rate on 13 November 2026. They are before GST and card charges, which are covered further down.

Two things changed on 14 April 2026 that older articles still get wrong. Pro stopped charging $20 per team member, so a team of five now pays the same $20 as a team of one. And form submissions became free on every credit plan.

How Netlify credits work

A credit is Netlify’s unit of usage. Your plan gives you a fixed number at the start of each billing cycle, and every metered action takes some away. Your billing cycle starts on the day you created the team, not on the 1st of the month.

What each action costs in credits

The production deploy line is the one Indian freelancers notice first. Every push to your main branch that publishes the site costs 15 credits, however small the change. Twenty production deploys use the whole Free allowance before a single visitor arrives.

What a credit is worth in rupees

Netlify prices extra credits at $10 for 1,500 on Pro, which is about 0.67 US cents a credit. At that rate, and at Rs 94.20 to the dollar:

On Personal, extra credits cost $5 for 500, or 1 cent each, so the same gigabyte of bandwidth costs $0.20 (about Rs 18.84). Credits included in your plan are a little cheaper than bought ones: Pro’s 3,000 credits for $20 work out at the same 0.67 cents, and Personal’s 1,000 for $9 at 0.9 cents.

What 300 free credits actually cover

The Free plan is $0 with 300 credits a month and a hard limit: you cannot buy more. Here is how quickly a small site can use them:

• 20 production deploys, and nothing else, or
• 15 GB of bandwidth, and nothing else, or
• a realistic mix: 8 production deploys (120), 6 GB of bandwidth (120) and 300,000 requests (60).

That is enough for a portfolio you update once a week. It is not enough for a site that deploys daily or that gets shared widely. If the Free limit is what you are deciding on, our guide to Netlify free plan limits goes through it in detail.

What happens when your credits run out

When the balance reaches zero, Netlify pauses every project on the team, not just the one that used the credits. Visitors see a “Site not available” page, the projects stop taking requests and form submissions, and you cannot publish a production deploy. Netlify emails you as credit use climbs, including at 50%, 75% and 100%.

What you can do next depends on the plan:

1. Free: wait for the next billing cycle, or upgrade.
2. Personal or Pro, auto recharge off: buy a credit pack by hand, or wait.
3. Personal or Pro, auto recharge on: Netlify buys a pack for you each time the balance runs out and charges your saved card. Auto recharge is off by default and only the team owner can turn it on.

Bought credits do not expire, so a pack bought on the 28th is still there next month. Plan credits reset each cycle and are lost if unused, except on the larger Pro tiers.

This is a real change from Netlify’s old plans, which billed overage with no cap. In February 2024, a Starter-plan user reported a bill of about $104,000 after a traffic spike, which Netlify later said it would forgive. On a credit plan, the worst case is a paused site, not a five-figure invoice.

Pro credit tiers and paid add-ons

Pro starts at 3,000 credits for $20. A team owner can move to 5,000, 10,000, 15,000 or 20,000 credits a month for a single flat price. Tiers above 3,000 also carry unused credits forward for one extra billing cycle; the base tier does not. Netlify shows the price of each tier in the dashboard’s plan selector, which is the place to check it, because the public page renders it in the browser rather than printing it.

An upgrade takes effect immediately and resets your billing cycle. A downgrade waits for the end of the cycle, and any unused plan credits, rollover included, are removed when it happens.

Two add-ons are charged in dollars on top of the plan:

Netlify Database and Netlify Server: what they cost

Netlify now sells two backend products, and both draw from the same credit pool. Neither is offered on legacy plans.

Netlify Database is managed Postgres, generally available since 28 April 2026. It costs 10 credits per database compute unit per hour while the database is awake, and 20 credits per GB of data it sends out. Storage is free for now; Netlify says it will give notice before it starts charging for it. On Free and Personal, a database sleeps after 5 minutes idle, and only Pro and Enterprise can keep one always on. Free also caps each database at 48 compute units per cycle and 5 GB of stored data.

An always-on database at the minimum size runs about 720 hours a month, or around 7,200 credits. That is more than Pro’s base 3,000. On base Pro, the other 4,200 means three 1,500-credit packs: $30, or Rs 2,826 before tax, for the database’s compute alone.

Netlify Server runs a long-lived Node.js server such as Express, Fastify or Hono, WebSockets included. It entered Early Access on 10 November 2026 and is free while in Early Access. At general availability Netlify will charge credits for reserved memory (GB-hours) and active CPU time (vCPU-hours), but it has not published the rates. A server scales to zero after 5 minutes without requests, and scales up to 3 instances, or 1 on Free and Personal.

Legacy plans: Starter and the old $19 Pro

Teams created before 4 September 2025 can stay on a legacy plan. These use limits instead of credits:

Moving a team from a legacy plan to a credit plan is permanent. Netlify’s billing FAQ says you cannot go back, and functions lose their free allowance and are metered in GB-hours from the first second. Work out your credit use from last month’s usage before you switch.

What a Netlify bill costs on an Indian card

Netlify bills in US dollars and takes cards, Apple Pay and Google Pay. There is no UPI, no netbanking and no rupee price. Four things turn the dollar amount into what leaves your account.

GST. Netlify’s Self-Serve Subscription Agreement says its fees do not include taxes and that it may invoice them. We did not find a Netlify page that says whether it charges Indian GST, so look at your own invoice. If it adds 18% GST, that is part of the price. If you are a GST-registered business and the invoice has no GST, you usually pay 18% yourself under reverse charge and claim it back as input tax credit; our guide to reverse charge on foreign hosting bills explains the steps. Check your own case with your accountant.

The exchange rate. Your bank converts at its own rate on the day of the charge. We use the RBI reference rate of Rs 94.20 from 13 November 2026.

The card’s forex markup. Many standard Indian credit cards add 3.5% on foreign-currency spends, plus 18% GST on that fee, which is about 4.13% in total. Premium cards are often near 2% (2.36% with GST), and a few banks offer zero-markup cards. The worked bills below use 4.13%.

Recurring payments and declined cards. Under the RBI’s Digital Payments - E-mandate Framework, 2026, an automatic card payment above Rs 15,000 needs your approval each time. Indian users have also reported on Netlify’s community forum, from 2021 to 2025, that recurring charges on Indian cards were declined, and a Netlify support reply in December 2024 said it was “unable to collect payment from any Netlify customers in India”. Netlify’s terms allow it to suspend service when a payment fails, so do not rely on auto recharge from an Indian card without testing it first.

Three Netlify bills worked out in rupees

The usage below is an assumption for illustration. Your real numbers are on the Usage & billing page of your Netlify team.

Bill 1: a freelancer on Personal. 30 production deploys (450 credits), 20 GB of bandwidth (400) and 1 million requests (200) come to 1,050 credits, 50 over the allowance. With auto recharge on, Netlify buys one 500-credit pack. Total: $9 + $5 = $14. The 450 unused pack credits stay for next month.

Bill 2: a three-person team on Pro. 60 production deploys (900), 60 GB of bandwidth (1,200), 3 million requests (600) and 20 GB-hours of functions (200) come to 2,900 credits, inside the 3,000. Total: $20. Before April 2026, the seat charge alone would have made it $60.

Bill 3: a growing product on base Pro. 150 production deploys (2,250), 250 GB of bandwidth (5,000), 10 million requests (2,000) and 100 GB-hours of functions (1,000) come to 10,250 credits. After the 3,000 included, auto recharge buys five 1,500-credit packs to cover the other 7,250. Total: $20 + $50 = $70. The 250 unused pack credits carry over to the next month.

If your invoice carries no Indian GST and you are not registered, leave out the GST column: the $20 Pro bill then comes to about Rs 1,962.

Bill 3 is where the dollar model hurts most. Bandwidth alone is 5,000 of its 10,250 credits, because each gigabyte costs 20 credits whether your visitors are in Pune or Paris.

How Voroa’s rupee pricing compares

Voroa is a hosting platform that runs in Mumbai and bills in rupees, with a GST invoice for every payment and payment by UPI, Indian card or netbanking. There is no dollar conversion and no forex markup. For the same kinds of project, the pieces work differently:

• Static sites are free to host and are not charged per deploy. Voroa serves the files in your repository as they are and runs no build, so you commit your built dist or build folder. If you want the build run on every push, deploy the same repository as a web service instead.
• Bandwidth is pooled per workspace. The Free plan includes 5 GB a month; Growth (Rs 499 per month plus GST) includes 25 GB; Scale (Rs 1,499 per month plus GST) includes 1,024 GB. Extra bandwidth on a paid plan is Rs 8 per GB plus GST, billed after the month ends, and only up to the plan’s billing ceiling: on Growth, nothing above 100 GB a month is charged (on Scale, 10,240 GB). A Free workspace that uses its 5 GB is stopped until the 1st, much like a Netlify pause; paid plans are never stopped for bandwidth.
• Server code runs as an always-on service at a fixed monthly price, not on credits. The smallest always-on size is Rs 298 a month plus GST.

Take Bill 3’s traffic: 250 GB of bandwidth on Growth is billed only up to the 100 GB ceiling, so it is Rs 499 plus 75 extra GB at Rs 8, which is Rs 1,099, or about Rs 1,297 with GST. On Scale, the 1,024 GB allowance covers it, and Scale plus one Starter service for an API is Rs 1,797, or about Rs 2,120 with GST.

That is not a like-for-like swap, and the differences matter. Netlify serves your site from a global CDN and builds it for you; Voroa serves from Mumbai, which suits an Indian audience but is farther from visitors elsewhere. A Voroa static site does not send unknown paths to index.html, so a single-page app needs hash routing or a web service. Netlify Forms, Edge Functions and its AI features have no direct equivalent. See the static site hosting page for what is included and Voroa’s full price list for every plan. If you are weighing a move, read when a Netlify alternative makes sense first.

Netlify pricing FAQ

Can I buy more credits on the Netlify Free plan?

No. Credit packs and auto recharge are only for Personal and Pro. On Free, the 300 credits are a hard limit: once they are spent, every site on the team pauses until the next cycle unless you upgrade.

Is Netlify Pro $20 per user?

No, not any more. Since 14 April 2026 the credit-based Pro plan is $20 a month for the whole team with unlimited members. Legacy Pro teams created before September 2025 still pay $19 per member.

Does Netlify charge GST in India?

Netlify’s agreement says its prices exclude taxes and that it may invoice them, but it publishes nothing India-specific. If your invoice has no GST and you are registered, you usually pay it under reverse charge. A GST invoice for cloud hosting shows what a valid Indian invoice must contain.

Can I pay Netlify with UPI?

No. Netlify accepts credit cards, Apple Pay and Google Pay on self-serve plans, and ACH or wire transfer on Enterprise. Use a card that is enabled for international and recurring payments.

Why was my Netlify site paused?

Your team’s credit balance reached zero. Check the usage page for the meter that grew - usually bandwidth or production deploys - then buy a pack, turn on auto recharge, move to a higher tier, or wait for the cycle to reset.

Host a static site in rupees

You can put a static site on Voroa for free, in Mumbai, and pay in rupees only when you add paid services. Deploy a static site from GitHub in a few minutes, and keep the guide to outbound bandwidth handy so you know what counts.

Last checked: 14 November 2026, against Netlify’s pricing page, credit-based billing documentation, legacy plan documentation and Self-Serve Subscription Agreement. Comparing dollar hosts? The same working for Vercel is in our Vercel pricing guide for India.